Gendered Mobility and the Identification of Women in Seventeenth-Century London

这项研究将研究在十七世纪伦敦日益流动的环境中应用于女性的识别方法。我的目标是发展一种分析，以被认同的女性本身的代理为中心，并通过揭示身份是一个异质的、经常有争议的过程，来挑战对身份认同历史的理解，将其视为国家官僚主义的不受限制的扩张之一。本研究将研究流动性对一系列广泛的妇女身份识别的影响，包括女流浪者、因破坏身份识别而受审的妇女、根据《济贫法》要求救济的妇女、跨国流动妇女和海洋社区妇女。我研究的中心问题是：为什么性别是鉴别流动女性的核心？

This study will examine the methods of identification applied to women in the increasingly mobile environment of seventeenth-century London. I aim to develop an analysis which centres the agency of the identified women themselves, and to challenge understandings of the history of identification as one of the unchecked expansion of state bureaucracy by revealing identification as a heterogeneous and frequently contested process. This study will examine the impacts of mobility on the identification of a broad array of women, including female vagrants, women tried for crimes which subverted identification, women who requested relief under the Poor Laws, transnationally mobile women, and women in maritime communities. My central research question is: why was gender central to the identification of mobile women?